Word: valencia
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...stubbly chin, President Alcala Zamora attempted to find a Premier. The choice of either reactionary Catholic Leader Gil Robles or shrewd, radical Manuel Azana might easily start a civil war. Finally he picked a political dummy for Alejandro Lerroux named Ricardo Samper Ibanez, an owlish, spectacled lawyer from Valencia and Lerroux's onetime Minister of Industry & Commerce. All but three of the Lerroux Cabinet were reappointed. Most notable omission was cultivated dome-browed Salvador de Madariaga, trilingual veteran of dozens of League conferences at Geneva...
Though Belmonte was beginning to be acclaimed in 1912, a bullfight in Valencia that year paid him only 80 pesetas; ni 1927 an afternoon in the same place netted him 35,000. Credited with revolutionizing the art of bullfighting, Belmonte made it more dangerous. He worked closer to the bull than his predecessors, and he went to the bull wherever it happened to be (previously certain parts of the arena had been considered impossibly dangerous for the matador). While he fought with what bullfight fans speak of as "emotion," he aroused even more emotion in the gasping spectators. ". . . He avails...
...Medieval Painting at Valencia," Professor Post, Fogg Small Room...
...been a sober impressive moment when the first constitutionally elected Cortes since the Second Republic assembled in Madrid last week and took their seats in the Congreso de los Diputados. But nobody had time to pay any attention to them for all hell was breaking loose in Madrid, Badajoz, Valencia, Murcia, Granada, Teruel and the north...
Though his Mexico City Orchestra was the first he has publicly conducted, Iturbi's metamorphosis is no sudden miracle. He likes to tell how he led a music academy band in his native Valencia when he was 12, how he has prepared long and secretly for the podium. During his concert tours in the U. S. since 1929 he has spent most of his spare time in New York studying orchestra scores, watching Toscanini and others conducting the Philharmonic-Symphony. Says Jose Iturbi: "I am like Diogenes. All my life I search for an honest musician. I find Arturo...